Brdo

The main protagonist, who is also the narrator of Brdo, a former PR person at a publishing house and the Museum of Contemporary Art, abandons his civic existence, promotions, exhibition openings, invitations and speeches to climb a hill that dominates an Adriatic island and from there, from an abandoned military watchtower, spends the entire summer guarding the island from fire. There, in the company of a dog and an aged donkey, he experiences the peak of his life. The text provides us with a subtle and complex insight into the hero's inner self, but at the same time into the context in which he lives, so that on and below the hill appear contemporary pilgrims who go on spiritual preparations, bikers, lost souls of the new age, warriors with PTSD, hunters, abusers: the island certainly remembers the traumatic nineties. All of this unfolds before the reader slowly and unobtrusively, within the framework of a realistically told story that is carefully and subtly constructed on both the micro and macro levels, just like the best poetry is written.